Archive for April, 2009
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Covered with Prayer
I don’t know that I’ve ever been in a setting where so much praying is going on all day.
We started each morning with team devotions and prayer. Then at the work site, we’d gather in a large circle with all the staff and volunteers to pray together.
Soon I’d see a small huddle of therapists and mechanics praying before their first patients came to them.
Then as each new person came, the therapist would pray aloud that God would lead to the right chair for this particular set of needs. And at the end, when God had answered that prayer, there was another prayer of thanks. After that each person had time with a pastor or other church leader for hearing the gospel and praying together.
A day and a place filled with prayer — a good place to be.
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
You Asked for It
Okay. Here by popular demand is the video of Americans trying to dance like Cameroonians–and doing a pretty good job of it.
At the end of a couple of workdays, the pastors and other volunteers broke into spontaneous singing and dancing and praising the Lord.
No instruments? No problem. Here’s an empty plastic bottle, a 5-gallon jerry can, and a wooden table.
You’re right, I’m not in this video. Well, somebody had to hold the camera.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Two-way Thanks
Our team could not have been in Cameroon or ministered as we did without our coworkers there. There is no adequate way to express our gratitude. But we said thank you often–to them and to God. And as a tangible token, each received books that had been donated by Desiring God’s International Outreach Department.
In a place like Cameroon, where income is low and life is often a struggle, the books were received with eagerness. And so the thanks we directed toward our fellow-workers was turned back by them toward us and Desiring God.
And don’t miss the video of children receiving Most of All, Jesus Loves You – also a gift of International Outreach.
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Gospel Bracelets
Last summer at Joni and Friends Family Retreat in Minnesota, the teens made Gospel bracelets to be used during the wheelchair distribution in Cameroon.
The color of each bead represents a Biblical truth in salvation and the Christian life. So a bracelet is a tangible reminder of the Gospel that a person has heard.
Thank you, Minnesota teens, for your ministry in Cameroon!
